Sweet Home Alabama: Evidence of an 18th Century Native American Village at the Chatsworth Plantation Site (16EBR192) in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Author(s): Dennis Jones; Donald Bourgeois
Year: 2018
Summary
After the Seven Years War in 1763, French aligned Alabama Indians found their eponymous homeland jeopardized by conflicts with Native American neighbors. Over the next few years, groups of Alabama sought refuge in what is now Louisiana. In the early 1770s, one Alabama group moved to the east bank of the Mississippi River near Bayou Manchac in what was then British West Florida. Now an insignificant waterway, Manchac was an international boundary between the British and Spanish in the 18th century. Because of Section 106 compliance by L’Auberge Casino, archaeologists conducted intermittent archaeological investigations between 2008 and 2014 in portions of the Chatsworth Plantation site. In addition to the 173,000+ artifacts associated with the plantation, researchers also found a smattering of Native American material related to the Alabama Indian village.
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Sweet Home Alabama: Evidence of an 18th Century Native American Village at the Chatsworth Plantation Site (16EBR192) in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Dennis Jones, Donald Bourgeois. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441534)
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Keywords
General
Alabama Indians
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Bayou Manchac
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British West Florida
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1760s to 1780s
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 128